'Operation Home for the Holidays' to bring Guard units home

The Associated Press

Published
7:57 am EST, Tuesday, December 22, 2009

HARTFORD -- Gov. M. Jodi Rell says two units of the Connecticut National Guard are returning home for the holidays, thanks to a fundraising effort to bus them back to the state from bases in Wisconsin and Indiana.

Rell says about 700 troops will be arriving in Connecticut Tuesday and Wednesday and will be on leave through Jan. 2. They have been training for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan early in the new year.

The New London-based 250th Engineer Company will return to Niantic Tuesday evening. The New Haven-based 102nd Infantry Regiment will be arriving in Hartford Wednesday morning.